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Top 5 Female Singers

Discussion in 'Sensorium' started by Death Rabbit, May 15, 2006.

  1. Harbourboy

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    What makes an artist "underground"?
     
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    Not being mentioned in mainstream radio/TV/press,
    Being known to such people like me and DotW only :p recording in garages, or in cheat (=poor) studio for your own money.
    Etc
     
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    If they started getting played on the radio, would you still like them?
     
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    Believe me, no commercial radio would play most of the underground metal music :p
     
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    Maybe for you, but for me it's Kari Rueslatten all the way! :love: :love: :love: :love:

    Undertaker has summed it up pretty nicely. They're not three-minutes radio-friendly hits.
     
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    Yeah? Caveboy? HB rocks on the "Booktalk" boards. Imagine that, a literate guy who knows good books, but little about pop music. What's this world coming to? :)
     
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    Chandos, don't let them hear you call it "pop" music! It's underground-alt-death-speed-trip-metal (or something). If you (or I) have heard of it then it must be some mainstream sell out.
     
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    I hate to be the hall monitor, but...

    :yot:

    PS - I had heard and heard of Nightwish before this list, but was never interested enough to find out who the singer was.
     
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    Back on topic, I'd like to add Heather Nova to my top 5 list, now that I have discovered that she has had more than one album.

    So, DR, what is the combined Top 5 for SP so far?
     
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    Well, the only ones to get multiple mentions are Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull, Tarja Turunen, Dido, Aretha Franklin and Dolores O'Rierdan, in order of votes (from a quick glance).

    Though someone else can do the tally next time. I don't like thinking! That's why I come here. ;) :rolling:
     
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    Bjork, Beth Gibbons, and Sarah Brightman also got multiple mentions.
     
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    Chandos the Red This Wheel's on Fire

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    So did Annie Wilson...
     
  13. Death Rabbit

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    Precisely why I don't like to be counter guy. :D
     
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    Count this:

    Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin
    Janis Joplin

    Nobody else in rock even comes close. :D
     
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    Janis Joplin is too depressing for me.
     
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    True, but she is the all-time greatest female singer in rock. No one has the pipes she had.
     
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    Eh, don't know if I would agree with that one. She was good, but all-time greatest is pushing it I think.
     
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    Amy Lee
    The Girl Who Sings in that Nightwish band
    Singer out of Killing Heidi
     
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    Hmm, don't know how I missed this...

    In no order

    Ann/Nancy Wilson gotta love em
    Charolette Church, the girl's got pipes
    Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart is so awesome, raw emotion)
    Melissa Ethredge
    Janis baby, she was the bomb
    Lita Ford

    Oops thats six, sorry couldn't prune it down any more.
     
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    Tina Turner.
    Sharleen Spiteri (Texas).
    Marie Fredrikkson (Roxette).
    Dolores O'Riordan (Cranberries, soon to go solo).
    Bonnie Tyler
    Cyndi Lauper.

    Ooops, that's six...
    Is unfair, I like some other girls too, and they should make to the top five too.
     
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